Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #2271 – Dec 31, 2021

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To the pioneer of history the wilderness was a foe to be conquered, so that he might make farms and pastures out of the endless forests. Today’s pioneer has a new purpose—to preserve some remnants of that wilderness from the onrush of modern civilization. The ax and the plow will not serve us in this struggle. Today’s instruments are more subtle. They are progressive law and informed public opinion—demanding that we maintain our wilderness birthright. [on the Status of the National Wilderness Preservation System, February 14, 1966]

—LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Thirty-sixth US President (1963–69), 1908-73

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #2207 – Oct 28, 2021

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If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it. (upon signing of the Wilderness Act of 1964)

—LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Thirty-sixth US President (1963–69), 1908-73

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #1472 – Oct 24, 2019

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A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky—these are man’s most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless.

—LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Thirty-sixth US President (1963–69), 1908–73

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #1129 – Nov 15, 2018

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. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory. (National Beauty Message, White House Conference on Natural Beauty, February 8, 1965)

—LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Thirty-sixth US President (1963–69), 1908-73

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #1108 – Oct 25, 2018

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The house of America is founded upon our land and if we keep that whole, then the storm can rage, but the house will stand forever.

—LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Thirty-sixth US President (1963–69), 1908–73

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #1093 – Oct 10, 2018

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An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they have been turned into open sewers by communities and by industries. It makes us all very fearful that all rivers will go this way unless somebody acts now to try to balance our river development. (remarks on signing the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act, October 2, 1968)

—LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Thirty-sixth US President (1963–69), 1908-73

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #420 – Dec 6, 2016

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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few we can solve by ourselves.

—LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Thirty-sixth US President (1963–69), 1908–73

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #348 – Sept 25, 2016

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The forgotten outdoorsmen of today are those who like to walk, hike, ride horseback, or bicycle. For them we must have trails as well as highways. Nor should automobiles be permitted to tyrannize the more leisurely human traffic.

Old and youth alike can participate. Our doctors recommend and encourage such activity for fitness and fun.

I am requesting, therefore, that the Secretary of the Interior work with his colleagues in the Federal Government and with state and local leaders and recommend to me a cooperative program to encourage a national system of trails, building up the more than 100,000 miles of trails in our national forests and parks.

There are many new and exciting trail projects underway across the land. In Arizona, a county has arranged for miles of irrigation canal banks to be used by riders and hikers. In Illinois, an abandoned railroad right-of-way is being developed as a prairie path. In New Mexico, utility rights-of-way are used as public trails.

As with so much of our quest for beauty and quality, each community has opportunities for action. We can and should have an abundance of trails for walking, cycling, and horseback riding, in and close to our cities. In the back county we need to copy the great Appalachian Trail in all parts of America and to make full use of rights-of-way and other public paths. (National Beauty Message, White House Conference on Natural Beauty, February 8, 1965)

—LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Thirty-sixth US President (1963–69), 1908-73

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